Purge / Jennifer Stevenson -- Traitor / R.M. Meluch -- Few good men / Holly Lisle -- Sitting Shiva / Judith Tarr -- Homecoming / Mickey Zuckedr Reichert -- One-armed queen / Jane Yolen -- For the right reason / Sydney Long -- Matter of faith / Juanita Coulson -- First Communion / Elizabeth Ann Scarborough -- Edge of the sword / Susan Booth -- Heart of the hydra / Gay Marshall -- White wings / P.J. Beese -- Flambeaux / Adrienne Marine-Barnes -- Notes during a time of Civil War / Margaret Ball -- Fugitives / P.N. Elrod -- Lizard / P.M. Griffin -- Hand to hand / Elizabeth Moon
Seventeen original stories by women writers on the subject of women in war, past, present or future. The protagonists range from combatants to participants, to victims. From Margaret Ball's Notes During a Time of Civil War, set in Bosnia, to Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's First Communion